I can put aliases in my .bashrc
(or files called from it) and they then work in my shell.
I can also then create other aliases at the command line, e.g.
alias aaa='ls'
and it works. aaa
does an ls
operation
But if I put that alias definitions in a file, say aaa_alias
, make it executable and then try and use it, it is not recognized.
I call it with ./aaa_alias
and get no error. But the aliases does not sem to have been defined in my shell.
Why not? What am I doing wrong? How can I have a small number of aliases ina separate file than I just use occasionally when I want and so I invoke it when I went them.